Income Mobility in Costa Rica, 2001-2007
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| Formato: | artículo original |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de Publicación: | 2014 |
| Descripción: | In this paper we study year-to-year intra-generational income mobility in Costa Rica. To do so we use a panel data set constructed from the Household Surveys for Multiple Purposes (2001-2007) that allows us to follow the same households and persons from year-to-year. We find that there is substantial year-to-year income mobility in Costa Rica, especially in the middle of the income distribution. We also identify the factors that most affect year-to-year income mobility in Costa Rica. We find that per capita income is conditionally convergent; low-income families are more likely to experience an increase in income than are high-income families. Aside from initial per capita income, the three most important factors that explain changes in per capita household income in Costa Rica are, in order of importance: (1) changes in the employment status of household members; (2) changes in the number of dependents (children, elderly and other non-working members) in the household; and (3) the education of household members, especially the household head. |
| País: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Institución: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/15050 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/economicas/article/view/15050 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | MOBILITY INCOME DISTRIBUTION LABOR MARKET EDUCATION FAMILY STRUCTURE MOVILIDAD DISTRIBUCIÓN INGRESOS MERCADO TRABAJO EDUCACIÓN COMPOSICIÓN FAMILIAR |